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[Scott Randby <srandby@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/08/2011 01:15 AM, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> Absolutely! Xubuntu is an official Ubuntu derivative, and even if it
> wasn't, you'd most certainly still be welcome. We're not going to
> exclude anyone on the basis of their operating system. (Hypocritical
> me: I'm typing this from a Windows machine.)

I'm glad to hear this. The thing I like most about Ubuntu is that it
works right away on a machine I have that has funny hardware. With other
distributions, I have to do extra work to get everything running.

In the future, when I have some time, I plan to be an active member of
this community and shed my lurker status.

> 
> Also, if you're interested, you can still access classic GNOME from
> the login screen by selecting the Classic session after selecting your
> username. On the other hand, Xubuntu is a very fun distribution to
> work and play around with; you'll have fun. :)

I would use a GNOME Classic session, but I read in several places that
the Classic session was going to be dropped in 11.10. I really don't
want to play around with installing different desktops -- my experience
with that is that something always breaks -- and I want something that
works right away the way I want it to work. Actually, I liked the
Xubuntu Xfce desktop better than the GNOME desktop in Ubuntu 10.04 (my
current install), so switching will be a pleasure.

I do plan to keep my eye on Unity. Maybe future implementations will be
useful to me. Maybe this is hearsay, but I find GNOME 3 to be more
palatable than Unity at this point.

Scott

> 
> Cheers
> Jacob
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Scott Randby <srandby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The basic issue I have is that Unity drives me crazy. So I looked around
>> and tried out Xubuntu which I like very much. I'm thinking of switching
>> over to Xubuntu completely, but I still want to be part of this
>> community. It seems to me that Xubuntu users should be accepted here,
>> but is that true? Any feedback would be appreciated.
>